And Boom! You successfully installed WordPress on your localhost/computer. Once you are done, hit the “Install WordPress” button. Don’t forget to note down the username & password because you need them to log in to your website. Don’t worry, you will be able to change that information later (except the username). On the next window, choose your website title, username, password, email, etc. If your information is correct, you will see a greeting “All right, sparky!…” & just hit the button called “Run the installation”. See screenshot below: Database information before WordPress installation It’s important to provide the correct ‘Database Name” & in my case, it’s “my_database_for_test”, the username is “ root” and the password is blank/nothing. The second/final step will ask you database name, username, password, etc. In the first window of installation, choose your preferred language and hit next. Go to your web browser and hit the link: “ and it will prompt you to a WordPress installation process. Now we are ready to install WordPress on localhost. See the below screenshot: Create new database In this example, I will name it- “my_database_for_test” and choose “ collation” from the dropdown. XAMPP welcome screenĪnd click on Database to create a new one. Go to localhost in your web browser or copy & paste the following link to your browser: and click on “phpMyAdmin”. One last step before we install WordPress. The “test” folder will look like the below screenshot: WordPress system files in localhost Select all the files & folders and move them to the “test” directory/folder. Once you extracted it, you will get all the system files within the “wordpress” folder. You will get a Zip file and you have to extract it. Now download WordPress into your project folder. So the project URL will be “ WordPress System Files In this example- I will create a folder called “test” and install WordPress in this “test” folder. Now go to the “ htdocs” folder and create a new folder to install WordPress. Make sure that you started both the Apache & MySQL and both shows a green background like the below screenshot: XAMPP Control Panel Started Please refer to the below screenshot for more clarifications. Click the first two ‘start’ buttons under the “Actions” tab. Find & open the application you have installed just a moment ago. Now the first step is to open the “Xampp Control Panel”. You have installed Xampp on your computer successfully. How to Install WordPress in Your Computer And the “htdocs” folder is your playground. Double click on it and look for another folder called “ htdocs” inside the “xampp” folder. Once the installation is completed, you will find a folder called “ xampp“. Just follow its directions and click next & next. The installation process is similar to any other software. But if you want to see the installation process for other software, please let me know in the comment. In this post, I will show you the XAMPP installation process quickly. Wamp Server, XAMPP, MAMP, Local by Flywheel are a few of them. There are a few free and paid software you can choose from to create the development environment on your computer. So you have to install & configure the development environment before you install WordPress in localhost. But most computers don’t have a built-in development environment, especially windows computers. Commercial hosting packages already have PHP, MySQL, Apache, and everything you need to install & build a WordPress website. You need a PHP-based development environment to install WordPress.
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